The MMPI Profile of Adult Schizophrenia with Childhood Physical or Sexual Abuse.
- Author:
Daeho KIM
1
;
Jin Hun KIM
;
Seung Ah CHUNG
;
Jung Hyun NAM
;
Hwallip BAE
;
Hye Jin CHANG
Author Information
1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea. dkim9289@hanyang.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Schizophrenia;
Trauma;
Child abuse;
MMPI;
Cluster B personality;
Personality disorder
- MeSH:
Adult*;
Child;
Child Abuse;
Depression;
Hospitals, General;
Humans;
Hypochondriasis;
Hysteria;
Inpatients;
Minnesota;
MMPI*;
Paranoid Disorders;
Personality Disorders;
Personality Inventory;
Schizophrenia*;
Sex Offenses*
- From:Journal of Korean Neuropsychiatric Association
2007;46(3):223-228
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVES: The symptomatic and behavioral correlates of childhood trauma in schizophrenia are beginning to emerge in the literature. This study aimed to investigate whether the association between personality traits and schizophrenia with childhood abuse can be replicated in Koreans using the Multiphasic Minnesota Personality Inventory (MMPI). METHODS: Eighteen schizophrenias with childhood abuse and 24 schizophrenic comparisons without abuse history were recruited at the inpatient units of two general hospitals and the subjects completed the MMPI. RESULTS: Subjects with schizophrenia plus childhood history of abuse had less educational years (p<.001). After controlling the educational year as a covariate, abused schizophrenic patients had higher scores in the Schizotypal (p=.003), Dependent (p=.014), Passive-aggressive (p=.034), Borderline (p=.045) subscales. For the validity and clinical subscales, significant differences were found in the F scale (p=.036), Hypochondriasis (p=.042), Depression (p<.001), Hysteria (p=.002), Personality disorder (p=.001), Paranoia (p=.024), Psychasthenia (p=.001) and Schizophrenia (p=.006) subscales. CONCLUSION: Our findings suggest that childhood abuse in schizophrenia is associated with more complex features of personality characteristics rather than specific cluster B personality traits.
